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How do I get my 14-year-old daughter to open up to me about her love life?
A parent looks for ways to encourage their 14-year-old to open up more about her struggles.
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Miss Manners: Do I stop talking when someone looks at their smartwatch?
Reader stops talking if someone looks at their phone. Should they stop for smartwatches, too?
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Carolyn Hax: Parents’ clash over child’s screen time is affecting their marriage
What he sees as some needed family downtime is, to his wife, a bid to “shirk daddy duties.”
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Asking Eric: My husband has no interest in me, so I turned to an old friend
A letter writer reconnected with an old friend who is much more affectionate than their husband.
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Beefed-Up Olympics Security Thins Out Tourists, Squeezing Merchants
French businesses had hoped the Games would bring an economic boom, but metal fences and police checkpoints have turned some areas of Paris into dead zones.
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Why Paper Checks Refuse to Die
It’s hard to avoid hassle — or fraud — when you’re required to pay with paper and ink. Here’s why checks persist and why some people don’t mind.
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A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation
The presumptive Democratic nominee has won concessions from Big Tech leaders on A.I., but she hasn’t successfully pushed Congress to regulate.
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From Online Drug Lord to Crypto Entrepreneur, Blake Benthall Is Back in Business
After Blake Benthall was arrested for running Silk Road 2.0, the infamous illegal drug bazaar, things didn’t go the way you might expect.
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Small Banks Say Their Commercial Real Estate Loans Are Fine
Community banks are big commercial real-estate lenders. But they say their loans are to sturdy local businesses, not those facing vacant office space.
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Hillary Clinton says Harris can beat Trump despite ‘sexism’ in politics
Clinton, noting the “double standards of American politics,” suggested in a New York Times op-ed that Harris focus on her record as a prosecutor and Biden’s vice president.